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kindness of strangers

These good news tales about the kindness of strangers are intended to be uplifting and give readers faith in humanity.

A photo of Swati's parents wearing sunglasses at the beach with the ocean behind them

What if … communities embrace all migrants with kindness

In this latest guest blog I bring you a beautiful story of kindness, learning and welcoming. A huge thank you to communicator, Swati Joshi, for sharing her family’s uplifting story of migration as a positive experience. As a 1st generation Indian American, I was excited to watch @KamalaHarris sworn in as VP of the US. […]

A hotel reception desk with a sign on the wall that says may I help you?

Meltdown support

We never know how other people might deal with a situation which we find easy. Or how a kind word or action from us can improve someone else’s experience of a situation. My guest blogger, Sara-Louise Ackrill, recently shared this example of kindness that changed her experience and helped her to avoid a difficult and

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Safely fitting a gas cooker

I love this story I saw on Facebook recently, from Winter Night Shelter MK, a charity supporting the homeless, vulnerable and those with mental health struggles in Milton Keynes “We wanted to say a huge thank you to Steadman Farley from Farley’s Heating and Plumbing Services. “Steadman contacted us offering his services for free to

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Save his special day

Kindness that made a little boy smile (& may have brought a few tears to my eye 😉) This message appeared on a local FB group this morning: “Does anybody happen to have a Skylanders Imaginators portal for Xbox 360 that we could either borrow or you no longer use please? We bought the game

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Polling station

It’s local election day here in the UK and I’ve just been to cast my vote. It strikes me that there is plenty of kindness involved. Most obvious is the kindness of the volunteers who run the polling stations. Without them giving up their time it wouldn’t be possible to have elections at all. And

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COVID vaccine #1

Today was the day! I’m in the age bracket currently being called forward for a COVID vaccination, so off I toddled to get my first dose. The kindness of the people at the vaccination centre made me a tad emotional. They must have to say the same things and answer the same questions literally hundreds

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Congratulations!

It was Mum and Dad’s 49th wedding anniversary last week. They popped into the supermarket for a few bits, trying to make something of the day by having a nice lunch. At the checkout they were chatting to the person who was scanning their shopping through. They mentioned it was their wedding anniversary and she

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What if we believe ordinary people have the power to do extraordinary things

During 2021 I’m sharing stories of kindness. Speaking up about the things that people do to help others and make their day better. Each month I’m going to publish a ‘What If…’ blog to inspire us all to think about how we already make the world a kinder place and ideas for things we could

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